Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A negro inoendiary was hanged by a mob at Mariana, Lee county, Ark. Joseph Nall, Assistant Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga, is 99,000 short in his accounts In two hours the Treasurer of Galdisposed of <IOO,OOO 5-peAent bonds, the money to be used to carry o n harbor improvements until Congress meets The Grand Jury in Montgomery, Ala, has returned six new indictments against United States Marshal Paul Strobach, eighteen against Thomas J. Smith, Register of the Land Office and nine against Samuel D. Oliver, the Chief Deputy Marshal At Helenwood, Tenn., John and Riley Cecil, father and son, were shot down by three brothers named Smith. The affray was the result of a feud of several years ■ standing. A free fight between whites and blacks at Archer, Alachua county, Ala, resulted in the killing of one on each sida Mrs. Walter Davis, of Harrodsburg, Ky., has published a long statement denouncing the court and Jury that she claims was organised to acquit Phil Thompson, and

claiming his entire Innocence of criminal intimacy with Mm Thompson, throwing all the blame on Jessie Buckner, and claiming that the reason her husband took Mtbl Thompson to his room at the St Clair Hotel last November waa because Miss Buckner’s room was (dosed against her at the time for the reasons which are but hinted at The most Important fact is in the statement that a letter was found written by Davis to Thompson, and dated April 36, referring to the scandal connecting him with Mrs. Thompson, solemnly declaring his Innocence and his ability to prove It if he (Thompson) ,would give him the opportunity. This is supplemented by statements from other parties detailing conversations to the same effect, but which they were not permitted to give in evidence at Thompson’s trial The publication has made a great sensation in the Blue Grass region, and the affair is not yet over with. Lynchburg, Va., was visited by a conflagration in which a large amount of property In the business part of the city was destroyed. The loss is estimated at #400,000. Five men were killed by the falling out of the walls of one of the burning bull dings.

James T. Rapier, Revenue Collector of the Montgomery (Ala) district, and formerly member of Congress, is dead. Mormon missionaries in Western North Carolina have made many proselytes, who were baptized into their new faith with shocking origies. Public indignation has been aroiued, and some lynohinga are not improbable.